Brandon Sparks and the Hidden Sun

After seven long years of hard work and imagination, Joshua Fuld presents Brandon Sparks and the Hidden Sun, the spellbinding first novel in the Brandon Sparks series.

Gazing up at the twinkling stars, twelve-year-old Brandon Sparks never could have imagined the universe was such a dark and dangerous place.

For Brandon, escaping from Earth to a starship seems the most exciting adventure imaginable; the perfect refuge from his mundane and bully-filled life. But when the adults aboard his new home are rendered comatose by a mysterious alien race, adventure plunges quickly into nightmare.

With only other children to rely on, the ragtag crew of the Hidden Sun must band together if they are to survive. Brandon will need to find the strength buried deep within, because in space, the bullies are as deadly as they are unforgiving.

Author’s Note:

The decision to write a children’s novel came from a love of the Harry Potter series, and as a way to challenge myself creatively. I had already written manuscripts for movies and TV, but how would I fare with a longer format and would I be able to write for an age group that was not my own? I sat down at the desk in my tiny Manhattan bedroom (which didn’t have a door by the way), and began to write. Over the course of the next year I completed the first draft of Brandon Sparks and the Hidden Sun.

Along the way there was a fascination with writing something so epic that it could be spread out over the course of seven novels. At the time I was just trying to get through the first one and didn’t have many thoughts of what would come next. I knew that I would include a cliffhanger at the end of the novel but I did not know what would come next.

Brandon Sparks and the Hidden Sun sets the stage for the rest of the series in the same way as a TV pilot does for a television show. This is only the beginning and the story just gets better as you go on.